Correspondence to Dr Scott I Tannenbaum, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness, Albany, New York 10011, USA; Scott.Tannenbaum{at}groupoe.com Healthcare providers are expected to communicate, ...
More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...
Background: Most studies of healthcare complications identify surgery as a major contributor to the overall burden of complicated care that leads to injury or death. Indeed, surgical adverse events ...
1 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth ...
Correspondence to Dr Adam Steventon, The Health Foundation, 90 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9RA, U; adam.steventon{at}health.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...
Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Correspondence to: P Hudson Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden ...
Correspondence to Dr Daren K Heyland, Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, Angada 4, 76 Stuart St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 2V7; ...
Correspondence to Aili V Langford, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2790, Australia; aili.langford{at}sydney.edu.au Background Chronic ...
Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical Centre Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr M E J L Hulscher, Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical ...
Objective Hospital care comprises nearly a third of US healthcare expenditures. Fifteen to 20 per cent of this spending is considered to be potentially preventable. Risk prediction models have ...
Objectives: To assess current attitudes towards the national patient survey programme in England, establish the extent to which survey results are used and identify barriers and incentives for using ...
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